Lot 54
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An English pearlware plate
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An English pearlware plate

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An English pearlware plate
printed in black with quarter-length portrait titled Captain HULL of the Constitution above a rifle and cannon flanked by a flags and arms and a ship in full sail, below a feuille de choux border enriched in dark-blue, circa 1812 (minor frits and scratches to glaze) -- 25.5cm. wide
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. Surgeon Captain P. D. Gordon Pugh, Naval Ceramics (1971), pl. 60A for a Staffordshire jug with a similar print of Captain Hull.

Isaac Hull (1775-1843) was a commodore in the American Navy.
At the beginning of the Anglo-American War in 1812, as Captain of the Constitution, he successfully managed to elude a British squadron in the Atlantic, a feat which was seen as one of the most remarkable in American naval history.

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